Two students arrested after ‘hit list,’ bomb scare at New Waverly High

A bomb scare and a “hit list” that allegedly included President Barack Obama led Walker County sheriff’s deputies and the Secret Service to New Waverly High School, where two students were arrested this week, KPRC-TV reports.

Officials say a student called in the bomb scare less than 24 hours after the list was found in 17-year-old Cody Buck’s backpack at the school. The list, which the teen reportedly claimed was just a joke, also included Sesame Street characters and Michael Jackson.

New Waverly Independent School District Superintendent Darol Hail tells Click2Houston that the first clues came from graffiti in a boy’s bathroom.

“It was in one of the restrooms and from what little I saw of it, it was some Neo Nazi and hate everybody kind of stuff,” said Hail.

After finding the list in Buck’s backpack, deputies alerted the Secret Service and authorities found brass knuckles and knives at his home, KPRC reports. The teen was jailed on weapons charges.

The bomb scare came at 8 a.m. Thursday.

KPRC reports that ATF agents and bomb-sniffing dogs found no explosives on the campus and cleared the staff and students to return to class in about 90 minutes.

Several students told the principal they saw a fellow student make the threatening phone call while on campus. The juvenile was taken into custody.

The juvenile’s identity was not released, and it was not clear if the two incidents were related. The teen was charged with making a false-alarm report, a felony, KHOU-Channel 11 says.